Jerry Lewis' 'The Day The Clown Cried' Footage Surfaces (VIDEO)

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Footage from Jerry Lewis' infamous 1972 film "The Day The Clown Cried" has surfaced online. Written by Joan O'Brien and Charles Denton and Lewis -- who also directed -- "The Day The Clown Cried" is about a German circus clown named Helmut Doork who winds up performing for Jewish children at a concentration camp. Doork's routine is used to help lead the children to their deaths in the gas chamber. "The Day The Clown Cried" was never released because Lewis was unhappy with the final product.

One person who has seen Lewis' lost film is comedian Harry Shearer. "If you say, 'Jerry Lewis, clown in a concentration camp,' and you make that movie up in your head, it's so much better than that. By better, I mean worse. You're stunned," Shearer told Howard Stern in an interview in 2011. (Listen to the full segment below.)